Been a great week – everything at work is ticking along nicely, and I had a day in Paris on Wednesday at the air show. Was a long day though…up at 2.30am to drive to Luton, arrived in Paris at 8 – FINALLY got to the air show at 12, got my ticket from the company we were there to have a meeting with at 1, which coincided with my needing some lunch (I did get a full english breakfast at Luton airport waiting for the boss and my flight, but 5 hours is a long time for me to go foodless).

The meeting went very well – may be a trip to Singapore for me in September (16 hour flight – lovely) – but the flight back was delayed an hour (I hate EasyJet – every time I’ve flown with them, there’s been a delay), meaning I didn’t get back to Lisa’s until after midnight, making it a 22 hour day for me, made worse by the fact that everyone else was drinking champagne after the meeting while I was on the black coffee 😐

Was so tired at work yesterday though I ended up going home for a 3 hour catch-up nap…

Management Speak
Truly the last resort for any wanker with very little to say, and an enormous fat gob with which to say it.

I have actually heard the following phrases in meetings:

“My_cat, you have failed to escalate this issue”

This after I tried to sort a problem out without running to the manager.

“My_cat, I am unhappy that you have PARKED this issue with me”

This after I had run to the manager after the previous warning (see above). By the way, am I working in an office or an NCP?

“I’m just Blue Sky thinking here – but I’d like to put forward a suggestion that pushes the envelope”

HANG THE FUCK ON – Isn’t Blue Skying a polite way of saying Bull Shitting? Isn’t it all just BS? Oh, and by the way we LICK the envelope round here – pushing it is just basically moving it from one part of the desk to another. (Issue parking wankers)

But hey, why use 7 words when 11 will make you look like a:
“client focused, task driven individual with a real eye on the forward game” = cunt

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